Editorial

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Stone, Ian R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; New Zealand; Royds; Antarc*; Polar Record; Scott Polar Research Institute
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000473; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247414000473

I write with the aim of keeping subscribers and readers informed about forthcoming changes concerning Polar Record , the journal of the Scott Polar Research Institute, that is published by Cambridge University Press. Many will be aware that the journal dates from 1931 and that its name arises from the need to record activity in polar areas, and in those days this largely consisted in setting out the heroic deeds of the various pioneering expeditions. The very first issue (priced at 1 shilling or 5 pence in today's currency!) contained information about Mawson's British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition and referred to the then recent deaths of Nansen, Sverdrup and Royds.